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A teacher and senior leader with over 18 years of classroom experience. Here is the English Box including my favourite resources for everything English, from phonics to handwriting, to comprehension and grammar.
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A teacher and senior leader with over 18 years of classroom experience.
Here is the English Box including my favourite resources for everything English, from phonics to handwriting, to comprehension and grammar.
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Inference Lesson Night Monkey Day Monkey KS1
Here is a complete lesson to teach inference skills based on the book ‘Night Monkey Day Monkey’ by Julia Donaldson.
Use the slide to teach your English lesson or it’s also great for guided reading sessions.
Use the inference questions and tasks for independent work.
Please note the questions are differentiated by colour:
yellow - low level questions
orange - expected age level questions
green - higher level questions
.
Also useful to set for distant learning work.
Spelling Lists KS1
Do you want to save time each week creating your own spelling lists linked to the curriculum?
Here are 25 weekly spelling lists to savce you time.
Use them for your weekly spelling at school and for homework. All rules are stated and linked the the curriculum…see below link:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/239784/English_Appendix_1_-_Spelling.pdf
You can adapt the words but they are all linked to the spelling rule and examples from the English National Curriculum included.
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Guided Reading Records FS - Year 6
Use these guided reading records to assess your weekly reading objectives in class.
The met and revisit boxes are great for highlighting any reading objectives that need more reinforcement.
These reading records have been management and inspector approved as a useful assessment tool.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum.
These were very useful as an English lead too as they ensured good coverage of the reading objectives and progression throughout the primary school.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum for all year groups.
Guided Reading Record Year 6
Use these guided reading records to assess your weekly reading objectives in class.
The met and revisit boxes are great for highlighting any reading objectives that need more reinforcement.
These reading records have been management and inspector approved as a useful assessment tool.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum.
These were very useful as an English lead too as they ensured good coverage of the reading objectives and progression throughout the primary school - see my bundle for records from Foundation Stage to Year 6.
Guided Reading Record Year 5
Use these guided reading records to assess your weekly reading objectives in class.
The met and revisit boxes are great for highlighting any reading objectives that need more reinforcement.
These reading records have been management and inspector approved as a useful assessment tool.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum.
These were very useful as an English lead too as they ensured good coverage of the reading objectives and progression throughout the primary school - see my bundle for records from Foundation Stage to Year 6.
Guided Reading Record Year 4
Use these guided reading records to assess your weekly reading objectives in class.
The met and revisit boxes are great for highlighting any reading objectives that need more reinforcement.
These reading records have been management and inspector approved as a useful assessment tool.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum.
These were very useful as an English lead too as they ensured good coverage of the reading objectives and progression throughout the primary school - see my bundle for records from Foundation Stage to Year 6.
Guided Reading Record Year 3
Use these guided reading records to assess your weekly reading objectives in class.
The met and revisit boxes are great for highlighting any reading objectives that need more reinforcement.
These reading records have been management and inspector approved as a useful assessment tool.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum.
These were very useful as an English lead too as they ensured good coverage of the reading objectives and progression throughout the primary school - see my bundle for records from Foundation Stage to Year 6.
Guided Reading Record Year 2
Use these guided reading records to assess your weekly reading objectives in class.
The met and revisit boxes are great for highlighting any reading objectives that need more reinforcement.
These reading records have been management and inspector approved as a useful assessment tool.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum.
These were very useful as an English lead too as they ensured good coverage of the reading objectives and progression throughout the primary school - see my bundle for records from Foundation Stage to Year 6.
Guided Reading Record Year 1
Use these guided reading records to assess your weekly reading objectives in class.
The met and revisit boxes are great for highlighting any reading objectives that need more reinforcement.
These reading records have been management and inspector approved as a useful assessment tool.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum.
These were very useful as an English lead too as they ensured good coverage of the reading objectives and progression throughout the primary school - see my bundle for records from Foundation Stage to Year 6.
Guided Reading Record Foundation Stage
Use these guided reading records to assess your weekly reading objectives in class.
The met and revisit boxes are great for highlighting any reading objectives that need more reinforcement.
These reading records have been management and inspector approved as a useful assessment tool.
All the reading objectives are clearly stated to ensure full coverage of the reading curriculum.
These were very useful as an English lead too as they ensured good coverage of the reading objectives and progression throughout the primary school - see my bundle for records from Foundation Stage to Year 6.
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English Lessons based on the text 'Tuesday'
These resources have been used with a Year 2 class and were great for KS1 English lessons.
Children loved re-telling the text Tuesday and the inference lesson created great discussions.
Lesson PowerPoint for Revising Grammar
Use this resource to teach a mixture of grammar skills to a Key Stage One class.
Differentiated Activities for Teaching Commas
This resource is colour coded/; yellow for easier task, blue for middle and green for challenge.
Use this as an idea for activities during an English lesson to teach commas.
Writing Sentences PowerPoint for Lesson
Adapt this to teach a ‘writing sentences’ lesson aimed for key stage one pupils.
Phonics Training Slide for School Staff
Here is a PowerPoint you can easily adapt if you would like to provide phonics training in your school.
Writing Instructions KS1
Use these slides or adapt them to your own lessons for helping children learn about instructions.
Includes:
-How to set a ‘cold task’ for writing,
-Following instuctions for making palydough,
-I used the task slide for ‘distance learning’ just pdf and add it to seesaw.
Retelling the text 'Tuesday'
Do you use ‘Talk for Writing’ to teach writing?
If so, here are a set of lessons to use for the text ‘Tuesday’ by David Wienser.
Use the text example which is suitable for KS1 children. My class loved using the text maps to retell the story and were able to internalise the story very quickly.
This was great to develop their story language and worked very well for both higher attainers and SEND children.
The outcomes of the children’s writing was fantastic. I will definitely use this unit in my teaching again.
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Grammar and Punctuation Lessons KS1
Use these slides in the classroom to deliver a grammar boost week!
Bundle includes exploring sentence types, using commas, punctuation and using conjunctions.
Writing Frame for the text 'Tuesday'
Use this writing template for your KS1 pupils to write the story based on the text ‘Tuesday’ by David Wiesner.
I used it as part of the cold task following the ‘talk for writing’ approach.
Tuesday Inference Lesson - KS1
Here is an inference lesson perfect for exploring the text ‘Tuesday’ by David Wiesner.
The lesson focuses on thinking about what the characters may say and think.
Easy to adapt lesson for yourself.